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Today marks the 77th anniversary of ve day — the end of the second world war. it was a conflict which saw thousands evacuated from their homes in big cities. in 1939, jewish children from london were ta ken to safety in ely in cambridgeshire, where they had to find a new way of life. daniela relph has their story. 70 miles from london, ely in cambridgeshire. during the second world war it became a sanctuary for a group of children from thejewish free school. evacuated here, it was an adjustmen...

U.s. are important for finland and for sweden. there might be some cyberattacks. its hard to tell. on the other hand, russia knows that the finns are tough. i mean, the finns fought them in 1939 when the soviet union invaded. thats where the molotov cocktail came from. it was invented by finns to fight off the soviet tanks. the finnish army is well regarded. theyve been part of partnership for peace since i was ambassador. so, its not that finland is a threat to russia, but what russia has done ...

Succeeds in invading mariupol?" i suppose the flip side of that question which i am adding in is what if he does not succeed, what if he fails with this invasion? i do not actually — he fails with this invasion? i do not actually think _ he fails with this invasion? i do not actually think he _ he fails with this invasion? i if not actually think he is going to succeed. but at least not in the terms he wants to. i think the parallel here is with stalins invasion of finland in 1939 when they we...

A bombshell this is. it just doesnt happen that you get a draft opinion like this leaked. just amazing. jasmine, so nice to see you. and lets get a check on cnn business. looking at markets around the world, asian shares have closed narrowly mixed, shanghai had a pop there. europe opened mixed as well. and on wall street, stock index futures looking down. yesterday was a wild day of trading. dow ended up 0.03% after falling 3 5 2 525 points earlier in the day. this has been a tough year for in...

Russia. ukraine declared independence from the soviet union independence from the soviet union in 1991, finland declared independence from russia in 1917, but in 1939 the soviet union invaded finland. it was met with fierce resistance and while it would retreat, kept nearly 10% of the territory. then, after the second world war, finland and the soviet union signed a friendship treaty and the neutrality that came with that has been the basis of in thes military strategy since. now, though, there ...

Find russian generals and admirals willing to carry this suicidal order. >> thats a good point. putin did meet in moscow today with the visiting u.n. secretary-general. is this essentially just political theater for putin or is there possibility, possibility of some sort of diplomatic solution to the war in ukraine? >> of course its a theater for putin. and i think its a shame for u.n. secretary-general visiting russia at a time when russia violated every chapter of the united nations. whats the...

Army did in -- first in 1939 and then in 1945 when it invaded eastern poland. so these are exactly the kind of tactics weve seen before in the distant past. >> general mccaffrey, its jonathan lemire. want to get your take on something that happened overnight. a large explosion and fire at an oil depot in russias city of briyansk. a fuel depot, vital for russian forces coming into ukraine. this comes on the heels of another one. train lines that run from russia to ukraine damaged a few days ago a...

And more importantly, the russian general also said theres, quote, evidence of oppression of the russian-speaking population in moldova. thats the same lie used by putin to justify the initial invasion of ukraine. its also part of the justification used by hitler as rational for his initial conquests in 1939. of course, part of this plan, or at least for any of it to succeed, russia would need to find more success in the donbas, which is another area heavily populated with russian-backed separat...

Moldova and even neighboring countries is that lots of people speak lots of things these days. the concept of defending somebodyt based on their linguistic heritage seems a little bit 1939ish. >> very much so. its like france coming to canada claiming part of its territory because they speak french over there or english is spoken in many countries in the world and its something -- we have an air raid -- it is off now, but we still get the sound. people speak different languages and here, if you ...

Work. however the calculus is, you can say putin, in his mind, the regime has to win. and how to define that, first and foremost, for his own people. and so when you think about it in that context, hes had -- they launched an -- an undefendable -- excuse me, an awful offensive that -- nothing that weve seen in europe since 1939. so, yes, he wants to win. hes playing to win. theres going to be very, very little. hes got to eke out a success. youve mentioned may 9th. victory day. thats going to be...